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Acorns

Hello Summer Term!

25th May 2022A Malone

This half-term Acorns have been as busy as ever! We have been learning about plants in Science, finding out about the Royal Family in History, writing poetry in English, and exploring multiplication, division and time in Maths.

We have also started tidying up the Acorns garden in readiness to plant some seeds and bulbs, and enjoyed our Jubilee Party!

Planning a fair test in Science

French with Madame Smith

Reception Acorns working hard

Megan from Healthy Minds came in to do a worry session with Year 1

Exploring 1990s artefacts sent in by our grown ups

Creating our Jubilee books

Reception Acorns exploring vehicles and buildings

Sorting out the garden!

Our Jubilee/1990s books

Spring Time Fun!

4th April 2022A Malone

Acorns have had another busy, fun filled half term. In Science we have explored the uses of everyday materials, and investigated magnetism. In DT we designed and made taxis, with working parts. For World Maths Day we created number posters and explored the art of Mondrian. Reception have been learning about shapes and continuing their reading and phonics. We always have lots of fun in Acorns!

Exploring magnetism

Investigating wheels and axles in Design and Technology

Designing and making our own vehicles with moving parts

Number posters and Mondrian shape art for World Maths Day

Reception exploring their vet role-play area

Working on our careful counting in Reception

Creating shape pictures

Exploring our favourite books

Bright Lights, Big City!

18th February 2022A Malone

We have had a busy half term in Acorns! Our topic is ‘Bright Lights, Big City’. and we have been finding out about the United Kingdom.

Reception have been learning about the weather and animals, and using their phonics skills to read and write words and sentences. In maths they have explored numbers up to 10, finding ways to represent the numbers in different ways as well as counting, ordering and matching.

Year 1 have been exploring adjectives, prepositions and imperative verbs, as well as writing directions and detailed character descriptions. They have also worked hard at improving their handwriting, learning new ways to join letters. In maths they have explored numbers to 50, place value and fractions.

Our topic work started with a little bit of research about the Queen. We had a royal tea party with crowns, dancing and royal snacks. We also practised our bowing and curtseying just in case we ever meet a real life member of the Royal family!

In Art we have been creating transient designs, exploring shape and lines using different types of pencils, and making collagraph prints. This linked to our work in science where we have investigated materials and their properties.

Everyone has worked super hard and had a fabulous time learning new things!

Well done Team Acorns!

Making Union Jack flags

Royal dancing!

Making crowns for our Royal party

More Royal dancing!

Transient art, using movable objects to create weather motifs

Reception Acorns exploring length and height

Reception Acorns working hard at their phonics and writing

Buddy reading

Emoji fans for e-safety week

Collagraphy printing

Egg Box Dragon character description

Another Busy Half-Term!

14th December 2021A Malone

Acorns (Reception and Year 1) have been very busy learning, working and playing this half-term. In Science we have been learning about seasonal changes, in History we looked at homes in the past, and in DT we have explored, designed, made and evaluated different types of puppets.

We have also raised awareness for Children in Need, celebrated Interfaith Week as part of our RE work, and been busy preparing for Christmas.

Children in Need

Reception Acorns exploring pattern in maths

Cutting skills

Year 1 Acorns making stick puppets in DT

Taking turns and sharing in Reception

Year 1 Science leaflets about the seasons

Christmas preparations!

Acorns First Half-Term

18th October 2021A Malone

Our new Reception Acorns have had a fabulous time settling into school this half-term. They have learned lots of new sounds in phonics, explored numbers and shapes in maths, made self-portraits and designed superhero masks, tidied up our outside area and garden, and much much more. Here are some photos showing the fun we have had!

Superhero mask making

Teamwork!

Self-portraits

Phonics fun!

Fun in the sensory room

Exploring number

Gardening and tidying outside

Junk modelling

Our Class

9th September 2021A Malone

Time for another exciting new year in Acorns! Here are some pictures of our areas, where lots of fun learning will be taking place!

Reading area

Maths area

Finger Gym

Role Play area

Creative area

Construction and Small World

Discovery and Investigation

PSED area

Writing area

Outdoors

Summer Fun in Acorns!

13th July 2021A Malone

This half term we have been exploring holidays and vehicles. We set up our role play beach cafe, where we have been spending money, finding totals and giving change!

Making a menu and price list

Finding totals

We also designed vehicles, and made clocks to help us tell the time so we aren’t late for our adventures!

Learning about time

Design a vehicle

Our new outdoor area was completed, and we have had fun making obstacle courses, exploring nature and playing games outside. In science, we have investigated floating and sinking, recording our ideas in charts and saying whether our predictions were correct.

Helping a ladybird!

Den building

Outdoor maths

Science investigations

Making predictions

We have been perfecting our handwriting and improving our sentences by being ‘word detectives’ and used stories and dictionaries to find adventurous and interesting words.

Labelling pictures from a story

Word detectives!

We’re ending our term with a visit to Whitburn beach for a ‘Beach School’ session, we can’t wait!

Ahoy there!

16th May 2021A Malone

In Acorns we have been exploring pirates by following and making maps, designing and making pirate ships, and reading books about the sea. Have a look at some of our adventures!

Working together to build our ships

A pirate treasure chest

“I see no ships!”

“Land ahoy!”

A mysterious message (and map!) in a bottle

Testing our pirate ships to see if they float and are waterproof

Will it float?

We worked hard to design our ships and then improve them to make sure they would work properly

World Maths Day 2021 in Acorns

19th March 2021A Malone

On Monday 15th March for World Maths Day, we listened to a story, ’10 Black Dots’, about how 10 dots can be arranged in different ways to represent different things.

10 Black Dots posters

We went on to explore number bonds to 10, finding as many ways as possible to make 10 using addition and subtraction.

We also made posters for numbers using the correct amount of black dots.

We explored the art work of Paul Klee, who used a lot of shapes in his pictures. We then made our own shape pictures and explored the vocabulary of shape.